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... death , the character of that prophet is confirmed ; and as none can see into futurity but God alone ; that , therefore , the prophet has been directed by the divine spirit : and consequently that nothing he has spoken professedly in ...
... death , the character of that prophet is confirmed ; and as none can see into futurity but God alone ; that , therefore , the prophet has been directed by the divine spirit : and consequently that nothing he has spoken professedly in ...
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... death , and feeds upon it , with a view more particularly to stigmatize the seditious . A third unsuccessful attempt made upon the Temple.- The Romans call a council of war . - The last attack upon the Temple succeeds . - The ...
... death , and feeds upon it , with a view more particularly to stigmatize the seditious . A third unsuccessful attempt made upon the Temple.- The Romans call a council of war . - The last attack upon the Temple succeeds . - The ...
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... death . That St. Peter was also a sufferer under the same perse- cution , is certain , both from written authority and in compliance with the prediction of Christ . ( John xxi . 18. - Acts ix . 16. ) Sulpicius speaking of this ...
... death . That St. Peter was also a sufferer under the same perse- cution , is certain , both from written authority and in compliance with the prediction of Christ . ( John xxi . 18. - Acts ix . 16. ) Sulpicius speaking of this ...
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... death to preserve the lives of the sur- vivors ; until being reduced to two , one of whom was Josephus , they agreed to surrender themselves to the army of Vespasian ; and this circumstance has not been unwisely regarded as a particular ...
... death to preserve the lives of the sur- vivors ; until being reduced to two , one of whom was Josephus , they agreed to surrender themselves to the army of Vespasian ; and this circumstance has not been unwisely regarded as a particular ...
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... death , they brought upon themselves his high re- sentment : and carrying a powerful army with him against Jerusalem , he took it by storm . The cruelties and excesses which he there commit- ted , were so oppressive and extensive in ...
... death , they brought upon themselves his high re- sentment : and carrying a powerful army with him against Jerusalem , he took it by storm . The cruelties and excesses which he there commit- ted , were so oppressive and extensive in ...
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Page 121 - Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by. the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Page 168 - Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed.
Page 87 - They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.
Page 165 - But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house of the Lord shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills ; and people shall flow unto it.
Page 122 - Woe unto you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
Page 104 - Think not that I am come to send peace on earth : I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
Page 6 - THE former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that JESUS began both to do and teach, until the day in which he was taken up...
Page 183 - I will also make it a possession for the bittern, and pools of water: and I will sweep it with the besom of destruction, saith the LORD of hosts.
Page 169 - For, behold, the day cometh, That shall burn as an oven ; And all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble : And the day that cometh shall burn them up, Saith the LORD of hosts, That it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Page 71 - But he that received the seed into stony places, the same is he that heareth the word, and anon with joy receiveth it; Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while : for when tribulation or persecution ariseth because of the word, by and by he is offended.